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Friday, December 26, 2014

2.0 Beta 2 greatly improves the options for widgets. Here is a list of what is customizable:

Colors (Currently limited to just black on white or vice versa)

Album art being shown

Background opacity

Font size (small / medium / large)

Number of buttons and you can configure each button (7 choices: playpause/fast forward/rewind/skip next/skip back/toggle shuffle/toggle repeat)

Playing info. Widgets get 2-4 slots (depending on the size) that can be customized similar to the now playing custom slots. The number is variables is not as extensive as now playing but there is a fairly good selection.

Removed:
-Removed "Push to start" on the widgets. It is no longer needed
-Removed icon option in custom metadata lines since icons are no longer shown in now playing

Fixes:
-Fixed issue with the top of the UI being cutoff in fullscreen mode
-Fixed issue where the queue position would not properly update if GMMP was in the background or the lockscreen was active
-Fixed bug where drag and drop was still enabled after turning off edit mode in the queue
-Attempted a fix for issues with the hardware button on LG phones running 4.1
-Fixed another crash caused by crossfading album art

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

1.9.7 (12/09/2014):
-Overflow button is now wider
-Album art will now change instantly in now playing if the view is not active
-Fixed crash when crossfading album art
-Fixed smart playlist editor crash in holo themes
-Fixed crash in theme preview
-Fixed other various crashes
-Fixed holo nav bar when set to right or bottom
-Fixed nav bar background color in Holo Colored Action Bar themes
-Fixed 'return to now playing' in holo themes
-Potential fix for crashes on 4.2 and 4.3
-Added Korean translation
-Updated translations

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

2.0 has been in the works for about 5 months and I finally have something releasable. There is still a lot more to do but its current state is good enough to use as a daily driver. One downside to 2.0, is it requires Android 4.1 and higher. The majority of GMMP users are 4.1+, so the decision was made in order to provide the best listening experience to the most about of users. 1.6.x will still be available for 2.3-4.0.4 users. You might also notice the 2.0 betas will actually have version numbers in the 1.9.x range. This is simply to make the bug reporting easier on me.

Anyway, the majority of the code base has been reworked, the holo themes were significantly improved, and this will be the first version of the new material based themes. The material themes will continue to be improved in future betas. I had also previously talked about the new Theme Builder that 2.0 will feature. Due to some of the limitations with material themes, the majority of the builder is disabled. What is enabled is a MASSIVE number of theme templates to choose from. I am talking about 1000+ different themes, 8 different "styles" total. There is also a "live preview" available so you can quickly see what a theme looks like. Settings -> UI -> Theme Builder -> Load Template to access the templates.

Note: There is one known bug when changing themes that users should be aware of, but it is fairly minor. When changing themes some of the views might not load. If this happens just back out of GMMP and launch it again.

2.0 Beta 1 will go live in a few hours. To join the beta you need to do the following

Fixes:
-A bunch of bug fixes (so much has changed since 1.6.7 that it is too difficult to single out what specific bugs from 1.6.x were fixed)
-Resume on call end will no longer auto resume if something that would normally trigger an auto pause occured during the call (disconnect from BT or unplug headset)